Originally released by Por Caridad Producciones in february 1998.

1. Dark Moon
2. Hope
3. Golpeado
4. Tomorrow
5. Strange Night
6. Delicate Things
7. The Best Moments
8. Never (The Same) Again
9. The Day I Die
10. Ne Me Quitte Pas
11. Never (In Love) Again
12. Necessary Lies
13. Sadness
14. Paraíso

Original credits:

Recorded live during the spring 1995 tour.
Mastered by Pere Boada at RS Estudi, Barcelona, 1997.
Artwork by Meteo Giráldez
Photos: Andrés Noarde, Conchi López, Ignacio Menéndez, Pablo Otín

The truth about it:

Superelvis needed to release a live recording in order to narrow the gap between their absolutely unrehearsed shows and their carefully produced albums (or was it the other way round?) So they had this nice recording for Spanish national radio, made on june 5th, 1995, for the Diario Pop show. So we asked Jesús Ordovás (the conductor of the show) if we could release it and he said ok, no problem. Nevertheless the new Spanish National Radio board did not think the same and asked us for an extravagant amount of money to release our own show. They said it was to cover the copyright. We bragged "Listen, we own the copyrights of that, you should pay us for them". Then they changed their minds and said "Ok, it is to cover our archival expenses. That's what it costs to make a copy of a tape in our archives". We said "Listen, we already got the tape. YOU gave it to us when we played". They went "This does not count. It is AS YOU DID NOT HAVE IT". We said "We are sorry, but we do have a first generation DAT copy of the show and we are going to use it". And sorry we were, because we could not title the album "Superelvis en el Diario Pop" (that was the first idea) and we had to use this fantastic Elvis Presley title instead. And of course, we could never publicly aknowledge who was involved in the genesis of the album. So, finally, here it is: thanks, Jesús!

Line-up for the occasion:

Anki Toner
Vocals, harmonica.
Founder member of the band.

Meteo Giráldez
Guitar, additional piano.
Founder member of the band.
Was playing guitar, but kept fingering the piano from time to time.

Raimon Aymerich
Piano.
Founder member of the band.

Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Accordion.
Eventually a full-member of the band.
Met the band just three weeks before this recording.

Mark Cunningham
Trumpet.
Had been playing with Superelvis for the last years two years and a half.

Markuss Breuss
Trumpet, flugelhorn, noises.
First time he played with Superelvis. Not the last one.
Had invited them all for dinner the night before.

Anton Ignorant
Guitar, noises.
Rare collaboration. This was his second gig with the band.

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